Joni candidly shares insight into how life abruptly shifted, and when it did how those alterations were multi-faceted encompassing emotions, passions, dreams, well-being…in short, her reality took on a new face…and it wasn’t always pretty.
The Journey Home
Viae Errantia ~ Latin For ~ Wandering Roads Generation of Awakening Wandering roads manifest in a multitude of form; literally and metaphorically. My wanderlust is rooted in understanding the mystery that is ever before me which proliferated my Seeker’s avidity. Paradoxically, I have come to accept that great questions are an introduction to doubt. “Learning […]
There is ~ No Way ~ Except the Way
This morning I awakened with the sunlight beaming through our window, I immediately became aware of everyone who is suffering. In our area of Nebraska, the flood waters are impinging into personal lives with a fury. It will be the end of a particular way of life for those who have been devastated by the […]
Like Waking Up From the Longest Dream
somnium longissimum ~Latin For~ longest dream Generational Dreamers “Once upon a dream, I fancied fairy tales and fantasized the type of life that little girls believe someday might be theirs. I held in my heart that my true love would arrive on a white horse and whisk me away to a happy-ever-after-life in his castle where […]
Inheriting the Wind
Possessio Ventus~ Latin for ~Inheriting the WindProverbs 11:29 Generational Inheritance Welcome to the fourth installment of My Mother’s Story and Mine. I offer you, the reader, an invitation to follow the path on which I have labored in making sense and finding meaning of my maternal family history. This solemn narrative has developed as I […]
Manifesto of Pain
Edictum Doloris– Latin for ~Manifesto of Pain Generational Shame The following poem was penned by my momin the wake of her Evangelistic father’s abandonmentwith his sister-in-law Pearl, a member of his congregation. The poem suggests mom lived with Basil and Pearl until she ran away at age 16.Basil continued the cycle of abuse against those […]